Public health hazards in Poland posed by foodstuffs contaminated with E.Coli O104: H4 bacterium from the recent European outbreak

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-10

  Biliński, Przemysław ^a,b   Kapka Skrzypczak, Lucyna ^c,d   Posobkiewicz, Marek ^a   Bondaryk, Małgorzata ^e   Hołownia, Piotr ^a   Wojtyła, Andrzej ^c  

^a Sanitary Inspectorate   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Contamination of food; E. coli O104: H4; Infections; Public health

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ECULIZUMAB;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; FRANCE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYDROELECTROLYTIC MANAGEMENT; HYDROLYSIS; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLAND; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SHIGA TOXIN GENE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; POLAND; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRIGONELLA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRIGONELLA FOENUM-GRAECUM;

EID: 84859297431     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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